I'm just curious what you all consider "sleeping through the night"

My daughter wakes up during naps and about 4 or 5 times a night crying (it's a pain shrill/cry but not a scream) but she isnt hungry and I just give her her pacifier, shush her and tell her it's ok, maybe rock her with my hand a bit and she will go back to sleep after about 5 mins at the longest.

Now most of the time (because my 5 month old is still in the bassinett about 1 foot from me) I just do this while I'm half asleep and just go back to sleep myself... now... I wonder if I'm doing a bad thing...

Should I leave her and let her try to soothe herself?? If I do leave her she starts crying more and wakes up even more and it takes longer to get her back to sleep. But I'm afraid if I don't get her to go back to sleep on her own or to get her to stop doing this I'll be running up and down the stairs 5 times a night when I do start putting her in her crib. Not that I'm afraid of the exercise, but who the hell wants to wake up from sleeping to run up the stairs - THAT many times??

I guess I always just considered this as sleeping through because she didnt wake up for long periods and she didnt do it to eat... she is just hurting I guess or something... she's actually done it since birth just about... she wakes up with this horrible little painful cry and these scrunched up eye brows and either it's reflux or nightmares... I thought at first it was nightmares and it would go away... but I realize in 5 months it hasnt!

hmmmm what am I to do?? She is really getting too big for the bassinett... I just cant get the crib downstairs (I had to build it IN her room) to our room so thats out... I'd love to move her up to her room... she naps in there during the day but again, I'm in there once or twice during her nap (which is inconsistant and varies from 10min to 2 hours) to give her the pacifier and get her back to sleep... it's harder in there too because she sees me and gets a big smile... at least in the bassinett in the middle of the night i just reach my arm over the side and do what I need to...

Oy... any suggestions?? I'll shut up now LoL

Hey Michele,

I would consider sleeping through the night actually sleeping for like 6 hours straight without being messed with :D

I don't have good advice because I was bad at this as a mom. And, with a refluxer we didn't even try because he would vomit all night long so we had to keep a close eye on him :D

Hey Michele,

I would consider sleeping through the night actually sleeping for like 6 hours straight without being messed with :D
I agree. If the baby falls asleep at 11 p.m. for the night and gets up at 5 a.m. for a feed, that's basically going the night. As they get older, sleeping through the night gets longer, thank goodness!

As for advice, everything that works about letting a baby soothe themselves back to sleep goes out the window for safety reasons with a refluxer.

So you're saying she DOES sleep through the night, with periods of screaming during?? lol

So I should get a box big enough to line with blankets and pillows to put her in next to me when she is too big for the bassinett.... or well now cause she really is too big for it. lol I guess I could crack open the pack n play but I could never get her down in it to sleep and it's such a pain to incline...

Good lord.. maybe I should just start sleeping on the couch...

The couch, We had to do that on bad nights when the prop in his bed wasn't enough.

and Eli loved his pack in play, I propped it with pillows under the mattress... not recommended though :D

So you're saying she DOES sleep through the night, with periods of screaming during?? lol
Good question...Reflux breaks all the norms and the rules of the norms.
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I consider sleeping through the night 10pm-5am with no crying! I hate to say it Michele... but I do that EVERY night and the boys are almost 11 months old. The boys wake and do a soft cry (not screaming) and so I let them go a couple of more times... if they don't settle I go and give them their paci and pat their butt.. I'm up for all of a couple of minutes but it does mess your good sleep. (Oh, and they are in their own cots in their own room). It's hard becasue lately Stephen has been sleeping right through (7pm-6am) with no crying at all but Matthew has been crying etc. :roll: :roll: I do put several paci's in their cot in the hopes they can find it themselves.. and sometimes they do. But sometimes they cry and they have the blooming thing in their mouths already!!!! :roll:

Michele, I would have to agree with the others 6 straight hours. I just finally moved Connor into his crib from the bassinet. He was getting too big and he would slide down in the middle of the night and his feet would be straight up in the air! It was actually pretty funny but didn't look to comfortable. I know what you mean that it's so much easier to have them next to you .Connor's room is on the other side of the house so I have to stumble over there in the middle of the night to put his pacifier back in but I have noticed I've been sleeping better not listening to every little noise he makes. He moves around all night long and my husband and I were getting no sleep. Something else we have that I can't live without is a video baby monitor. We have it in our bedroom and can see him in his crib it's definately my favorite shower gift. When I hear him fuss I can watch him on the monitor and make sure he's actually awake and not just making noises!

Michelle,

I have been doing this for the past two nights. I know he's not hungry because he doesn't open his eyes, and he falls asleep easily w/the paci. He doesn't full on cry but he is definitely awake/wimpering until I give him his paci. It wouldn't bother me if he could get it himself! He is only 3.5 months. But he used to wake up to eat so...I don't know.

I do not consider this sleeping through! :shock:

Meg

Well...I finally had to let Zac just deal w/his "issue" at night one night for a while. He was waking just to be rocked back to sleep and it was making me nuts. yes, he's a refluxer, but he does not vomit or choke when crying. I had to let him cry becasue I was NOT going to get up every hour and rock him only to have him wake again after putting him down. He cried that first night for a long time, the second night for 20 min, the third for 10. Now he goes down w/no issues and once in a WHILE he will wake up whining, but i put paci back in his mouth and he's back asleep. He goes down around 745 and wakes up sometime around 4 to whine, goes back down and wakes up to nurse around 530ish...usually goes back down...I agree w/the 6 hours straight as through the night.

Quick funny story...I used to tell people Noah slept through the night. I thought he did. Then, my mom overheard me talking about being up at all these odd hours. I explained that I got up to feed or rock him several times per night, but he kept going back to bed. She explained that this doesn't count as "sleeping through the night". Seriously, I thought he was! Talk about a first time mom moment!

Now, I consider sleeping through the night about 10-6. Maybe 11-6. I don't even know. Only happens once every other freakin' month....

Maggie,

Too funny about thinking he was sleeping through the night when he was still waking to eat! :lol: